blogbeebe: Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha 3–Installation

“I finally broke down and installed Ubuntu (7.04 Alpha 3) over
Fedora Core 6 this evening. I decided to do this after reading
about Eric Raymond’s rant against his installation of FC6. In the
end he installed Ubuntu 6.10 over it. So I decided I’d give it a
whirl as well.

“I’ve always appreciated Ubuntu’s live CDs, considering them to
be some of the best, if not the best, I’ve ever worked with. But I
never took that one final step and made a permanent installation,
preferring instead to use Suse or Fedora Core. Now that I’ve
finally installed Ubuntu, I have to wonder why I took so long. I
mean, considering it’s an alpha version, it has got to be the
sweetest thing I’ve ever installed. To be fair to FC6 I’ve not had
the problems that Eric documented. But I have to say that based on
my limited exposure so far, Ubuntu 7.04 stands head and shoulders
above FC6…”

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